The Summer Before the Bark DORIS LESSING Knopf, $6.95 The Hothouse by the East River MURIEL SPARK Viking, $5.95 Life Signs JOHANNA DAVIS Atheneum, $5.95 RUTH PRIGOZY Three new novels, by...
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TIlE BUTCHER, THE BAKER, THE MOVIgMAtt II~lt THE SCREEN While I was praising Minnie and Moskowitz in this column last week, I might also have mentionted Claude Chabrol's new film, Le Boucher....
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WITH the reverberations of what must be considered a national vote of protest against the Hoover administration still ringing in their ears, Congress will assemble on December i, for the short...
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IT IS an axiom among those very practical gentlemen who manage the affairs of political parties that reform movements are not permanent. The truth of this dogma of political faith is illustrated...
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The Passionate Prophet Henry Thoreau: The Cosmic Yankee, by J. Brooks Atkinson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. HENRY THOREAU might be considered a pioneer of that American frontier, the open...
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LET the imagination picture a vast cage coterminous with the north wing of the Capitol at Washington. In that cage see two giant squirrel wheels revolving furiously in opposite directions,...
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